- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:44:22 -0500
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Cc: W3C WAI-XTECH <wai-xtech@w3.org>
Hi Leif, > Some of the @longdesc supporters (Laura, I'm looking at you) seems > to see ARIA solutions as a hack. Many think that ARIA is a bridging technology and HTML5 should have built-in native features. This in fact was successful rationale used to keep <figure>, <aside>, <details>, and hidden="" in HTML5 [1]. Longdesc is native. It solves a problem. It is simple. Why reinvent the wheel? Isn't that a design principle...anyway I digress... If aria-describedby can fix the problem, why not give the fix to longdesc and fix it natively? Most authors are not going to learn two languages to make content accessible. We have a hard enough time teaching them HTML. Pile on another layer and it will complicate things more. But with that said, if we could make a simple, native, solution that is better and *gracefully* move to it, that would be great. Best Regards, Laura [1] http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/KeepNewElements -- Laura L. Carlson
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